Computer Science

Kristin Buxton Librarian Sherman Fairchild Library (626) 395-3410

Associations, Societies, and Groups Caltech Open Access blog Computer Science Resources Databases Electronic Books Electronic Journals Library Classes New Books and Journals (at Caltech) Technical Reports

Associations, Societies, and Groups

• American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• American Mathematical Society (AMS)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • ACM Special Interest Groups (SIG) Guide
• Computing Research Association
• IEEE Computer Society
• Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU - Former CCITT)
• Max-Planck Institut fÙr Informatik
• Society of Photographic Instrumentation (SPIE)
• Usenix Association

Computer Science Resources

• BABEL
• Calculators OnLine Center
• Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters
• Computer Science (University of Albany guide to Computer Science)
• Computer Virus Myths
• Directory of Computer Science Journals
• Living Internet (History of the Internet)
• Mandelbrot Exhibition of the Virtual Museum of Computing
• Mandelbrot Explorer and Mandelbrot and Julia Set Explorer
• Physics, Astronomy, Math, and Computer Science Resources (PAMNET)
• Programmers' Heaven
• Webopedia: online dictionary for computer and internet terms

Databases

• ACM Digital Library: contains fulltext, bibliographic information, abstracts, and reviews for articles published in ACM periodicals & magazines, ACM proceedings & ACM SIG conference proceedings. 
• Business Resources: a CLS website supporting business research at Caltech.  
• CiteSeer (developed by the NEC Research Institute) indexes "literature freely available on the publicly indexable web" using an innovative tool - Autonomous Citation Indexing (ACI) - to create a citation index.  ResearchIndex analyzes the computer science literature which has not been previously accessible via traditional indexing service providing access to technical reports, conference papers in addition to journal articles, books and chapters in books.  
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
• Computing Research Repository (CoRR) at the LANL e-print archive.  In addition there is an ACM link  that provides background on the history and purpose of CoRR.
• Dissertation Abstracts Citations 1861-, abstracts 1980-, Caltech dissertations full text 1997-.
• EI Village Engineering Information Village (including access to Compendex). Site licensed access to Engineering Index
• IEEExplore, although actually an interface to the 106 IEEE society transactions, journals, and magazines, can be used as a database to find material published by the IEEE. Full-text access from 1998 is available to the Caltech community. Tables of contents are provided for IEEE and IEE publications beginning in 1988. 
• INSPEC   -- 1898+
• MathSciNet: Site-licensed access to Mathematical Reviews.and Current Mathematical Publications
• Medline - Online access to the database of the National Library of Medicine
• Synthesis - Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science, published by Morgan & Claypool, provides access to lectures on research topics in Engineering and Computer Science
• Web of Science- Scientific literature database (online version of the Science Citation Index) containing article references from 1900+; includes cited reference searching and document delivery capabilities; Web of Science also includes access to the Arts & Humanities and Social Science Citation Index databases

Algorithm Collections

• Collected Algorithms (CALGO) of the ACM
• The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository

Electronic Books

• Numerical Recipes Books On-Line
• Numerical Recipes in C: the art of scientific computing / William H. Press ... [et al.], 2nd ed, Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Handbook of Applied Cryptography
• The Theory of Linear Prediction by P. P. Vaidyanathan
• Reversibility and Stochastic Networks by P.F. Kelly

Computer Science Education and Research

• Computer Science Departments
• Graduate Assistantship Directory (from ACM)
• Research Centers etc.

Employment

• ACM Career Resource Center
• Developers.Net
• IEEE Careers for Electrical Engineers and Computer Scientists

Caltech Online Journals

• Find e-journals

Also: 

• ACM Digital Library contains full-text, bibliographic information, abstracts, and reviews for articles published in ACM periodicals & magazines
• IEEE Xplore full-text access (from 1998) to nearly 200 IEEE & IET society transactions, journals, and magazines. 

Technical Reports

• AAAI (American Association of Artificial Intelligence)  Technical Reports
• CaltechCSTR Caltech Library System manages caltechCSTR - a repository of technical reports - on behalf of the Caltech Computer Science Department. Caltech CS department faculty and students can register and deposit reports at this website. Reports are freely available. We are in the process of digitizing the older reports and have gone back as far as 1985. The CaltechCSTR project is part of our OAI compliant Digital Collections Project. 
• Carnegie Mellon Engineering and Science Library has one of the largest collection of computer science technical reports, including international technical reports, in the nation dating back to 1966 (approximately 68,000 reports in 2000). Visit the CMU library catalog .  Use "Complex Search" choosing "TECH-REPT" as the location. Reports can be borrowed via Inter-Library Loan. 
• Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC)
• NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library)
• Virtual Technical Reports Center

Caltech Links

• Division of Engineering and Applied Science
• Computer Science Department
• Selected Publications of the Caltech Computer Science Faculty Bibliography in Honor of Computer Science @ Caltech 25th Anniversary Celebration.

Last Updated 2/14/2008